For more than 150 years, Michigan law firm Butzel Long has been a major player in Detroit politics and the automotive and publishing industries, with its partners advising President Grover Cleveland, serving as postmaster general and representing the Chicago Tribune against a libel suit by Henry Ford.

But the firm’s history in Florida has been much shorter and less storied. The firm closed its two Florida offices, in Palm Beach and in Boca Raton, Wednesday. Akerman Senterfitt took over the two offices, along with their eight lawyers, five paralegals and eight support staff.

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